Staying posifrickentive- Thread 19 for ladies pg after mc

[Brenna24]

Ready. Steady. Go

Thinking of you Amy.

Lovely picture Impala.

Just got home!
The plan is, daily ctg’s and I have to wait for a scan with the fmc consultant which may be tomorrow or Wednesday and go from there.
They might decide to bring my csection forward.
Baby however is doing great. She’s growing along the same lines but again her tummy is huge on the 97th percentile. Estimated weight is 7lb1oz at the minute. She’s really active at the minute wriggling around a lot. They wanted to keep me in but I can’t see how that would make any difference as I’ll be there at 9 am in the morning anyway.
They’ve advised to increase my fluid and salt intake in the meantime so I’m sat here with a 2 litre bottle of water to polish off before bed and expect to be up all night peeing!
Just want to get her out now, I only went for a reassurance scan 😖

Hope you’re all ok

@Impala1980 lovely scan pic and so glad everything is low risk for you 😁

So glad you’ve got a plan. She sounds a lovely healthy weight. Fingers crossed they bring you forward so you can relax with your brand new little one!

Hi guys

Hi everyone,

Amy I'm glad you have a reason for reduced movements and they have a plan of action in place. Hopefully they'll bring your date forward a little!

So I had my 12 week scan yesterday and I am delighted and overwhelmed to be able to tell you all that it went well! I could not believe I was looking at my own baby wriggling around on the screen. DP and I have never seen our babies alive on a scan before and definitely not baby shaped so it was incredibly wonderful. I know I'm nowhere near out of the woods and I'm almost waiting for the worries to start creeping back in but for now, today, I'm clinging on to the positivity and my little bubble of happiness. I never allowed myself to imagine seeing a baby alive and just burst into tears when she told me to look at the screen to see my baby and its heartbeat

To those worrying about symptoms - mine really tailed off around 9 weeks and have been consistently better since then. i tried to really focus on considering times of day when I hadn't been 100% well because there were moments, I think sometimes it's easy to forget when you're busy and generally feel ok. For those in the early days, I'm really praying it goes quickly for you!

It's also the month of my due date for our twins. It would've been an incredibly difficult month had we not had good news yesterday. I'm thinking about them a lot but also trying to focus on this little one to help get us through. It's a difficult time. Marking it with something like planting a tree sounds lovely x

impala fantastic news! And congratulations! I knew we had a boy at our 12 weeks scan as it turned out he was 14 weeks, and it was very clear, confirmed at the 20 week scan!

It sounds like you’re getting excellent care amy, hope all continues to go well (and you weren’t up all night peeing!)

Great news emvy you must be so relieved! I remember when you got your bfp :) fingers crossed it all continues to go well for you. I’m sorry your twins’ due date is coming up. So glad you have more positive news.

Thanks for the symptom reassurance em! Google searches at 5 am today were: ‘more energy at 8 weeks’, (which got nowhere, but ‘waking at 5 am’ did!) less urination at 8 weeks, and so on. I’m driving myself nuts. Luckily it’s only occasionally that the worry hits.

utter What's the GTT drink?
emvy that's great news, it's wonderful and almost surreal when you see an actual baby isn't it?!
amy what's daily CTGs? Glad it's all ok- your getting very close to meeting your baby

@emvy and @impala wonderful news from both of you, congratulations!

@Amy that must have been scary, but I'm glad they got it figured out and you have a plan and lots of care. And great news about the healthy weight, maybe she's just ready! X

I had my check up and GRFB class yesterday and have been referred for a growth scan on Thursday due to my small bump measurement. It is stressing me out even though baby was normal size at the 20 week scan (now 27+5). Can I have a hand hold? DH didn't understand why I was worried but I explained that I wanted him with me for the scan in case something was wrong, so he'll be there at least.

utter 🤢 Sounds grim!! Hope all results come back ok and you have a good book!

wlm hand hold- try not to worry... I swear the measurements thing is largely just guess work, I've been too small before and my son came our perfectly fine. I'm only 5 foot tall and a size 6, so I'm not going to be measuring the same as a 6 foot size 16 woman... but they use the same chart!

Lovely, lovely news @Emvy and @Impala, it's so nice to hear positive stories of 12 week scans. It gives me hope!

@amy I'm so glad that baby is doing well. They're really on top of your care - it sounds like they're looking after you well which is great.

@WLMcl I'm sorry, that must be worrying. I'm sure it's all ok though. I always thought the growth measurements were pretty basic so fingers crossed they are just not that accurate and all is fine.

My booking in went ok this morning, I had a lovely midwife go through it all with me. I'm currently low risk. I still feel like a bit of a fraud though, like this is only a hypothetical pregnancy. I don't think it'll sink in until I can feel the baby moving.

@WLMcI I think the way they measure the bump is a bit daft, they use the same measurements for everyone, we aren’t all the same!

I have a bit of extra padding, and my husband is a very tall man. So of course my bump measured ahead. I got to have an additional scan which was a bonus. My baby has long legs like her daddy, and is on the top of the chart but nothing to be worried about

@AnUtterIdiot hope your gtt results are all clear.

@mogulfield ctg is the monitor they put on for contractions and babies heartbeat.

Been sat at the hospital for 5 hours this morning. Got home around 2pm. They’ve moved my section forward to this Friday, given me one steroid injection and another tomorrow. Going for my pre-op tomorrow afternoon, bloods and the second steroid injection then we’re good to go. Have to move all sorts of appointments for next week around, DD’s parents evenings are booked in for Wednesday, don’t think I’ll be making them unless I feel ok.
Got so much to do at home, it’s all going to be one mad rush to sort everything out and they’ve told me I need to rest in bed if possible until Friday. Not happening!

@AmyB Oh my gosh, get other people to do all the stuff that needs doing! There is no more important time to take care of yourself than now so rally the troops! Wow, you get to meet your wee girl in 3 days!

Thanks for the sympathy guys! My growth chart is actually personalised based on my BMI at 12 weeks (booking in), so that's why I was worried--I spied the MW marking the measurement and it was below my own chart's 10th percentile. But hopefully it's nothing; my mother carried small and all of us were a reasonable weight at full term (6lbs and up).

Amy god what an experience! It sounds like they're really looking after you and little one, which must be reassuring - but crikey, Friday! Not long now! Agree with getting everyone else to sort out whatever needs sorting while you get your feet up.

WLMcl easier said than done but please try not to worry. The growth charts, even the personalised ones, are a very basic monitoring tool. Even the scans have something like a 10% margin of error on the weight measurements. Nothing's an exact science and there are sooooo many reasons you might be measuring a bit under. With my DD I had to have a growth scan as was something like 5cm under and hadnt grown at all between appts - she was absolutely fine and went on to be 7lb10oz at birth, so a decent size!
Utter that drink sounds horrible! When do you find out the results? Hope all's ok.
Impala lovely picture and congrats on your little boy!
emvy so so happy for you everything went well at your scan, it must have been amazing and such a relief.
Ekphrasis my symptoms have come and gone this time, and some that I've had in every other pregnancy just never materialised at all - boobs are exactly the same this time, when they've been huge and sore every time before. It's always different. Just have to have faith that all will be ok, which is almost impossible (and I'm a massive hypocrite as I've never managed it!)
tiffin I also feel like a fraud! I said exactly that on my antenatal thread - 11+1 and symptoms have all but gone now, no bump, no movements, scan not til next thurs and I'm just left here wondering if I've made the whole thing up

Amy that's exciting but must feel a bit scary to have the plans changed. Your safety is more important than whatever needs doing - agree you need to rally the troops and issue edicts from your bed! How old is DD? I'm sure if you can't make it to parents eve it won't be the end of the world.

I reached 14 weeks today so am in the 2nd trimester. Another milestone.

Hi All... Eek Amy... that's scary but exciting @emvy and @impala... lovely that your scans went well... my 12 week scan is tomorrow and I'm driving myself crazy... x

Amy wow.* Must be exciting and scary all wrapped into one to bring it forward. Hope everything goes ok.* Maybe they could do something parents evening on the phone? They’d surely understand you can’t go in!

Lisara hope everything goes well at the scan.**

Wlmcl Really hope everything is ok.* I’m sure it probably is, they just have protocol to stick to.* But we are here hand holding!

Utter I hope the scan next week goes as well as possible.** Fx on the gtt results when they come back!

Urgh. My posts do not look like that before I post them, I swear!!

@amy eek! What a week for you roll on Friday I'm sure your excited to meet your little one at last but I bet you'd rather not have the drama! Sounds like your in really good hands take it easy and i still remember vividly my steroid inj with my twins 6 years ago was in my right buttock😮🙈 and was painful so poor you having 2!
Glad everyone's scan gone ok have my 20 wk scan next Wednesday getting nervous now. Been signed off work for 2 weeks as ive hurr my back in work spd making everything so much worse 😕 feeling very guilty that im not enjoying this pregnancy one little bit just want my baby here in my arms so I can get on living life with my big mad brood. It's that time of year again though this time last year I should have been gearing up for going on mat leave so now I would have been coming back probably another milestone that im not doing plus the baby I lost at 5 weeks should have been due end of the month thought I'd be fine as I was still in the don't think about it to much it's going to go wrong stages when I lost him or her but Im actually a bit down this week.